Metallica’s Kirk Announces First Solo EP ‘Portals’
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has just released Portals, a four-track EP that marks his debut foray as a solo artist and the first solo record from any active member of the band.
Angelically, Lauryn Hill opens this gut-wrencher with quite lonely vocals – a refreshing yet gloomy follow-up to “The Beast.” This back-and-forth presents as a theme throughout the album, exhibiting the musical range of not only Hill but the trio as a whole.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has just released Portals, a four-track EP that marks his debut foray as a solo artist and the first solo record from any active member of the band.
Former Kyuss members Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork and drummer Ryan Güt, form the desert rock trio Stoner, who have released their second album, Totally…, and a new single, “A Million Beers.”
Just weeks after the Jimi Hendrix estate sued the estates of the other two members of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, the estates of Redding and Mitchell have sued Sony Music Entertainment for streaming royalties.
Although Neil Young’s songs are no longer available on Spotify, the musician hasn’t had his last say. Rather than contributing to the debate over Joe Rogan’s show, his main aim is Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek. Young published a fresh open letter on his Neil Young’s Archives website, in which he expressed his concern about misinformation and those who spread it. While first lecturing about “climate disaster” and the difficulties with fossil fuels and those who sponsor them, the musician then shifted his focus to the world’s “creators,” once again urging people to boycott Spotify. “To the musicians and creators in